Lac des Grandes Baies
46.378° N, 75.11° W
Depth contours from the 2012 government survey. Not for navigation.
Download the depth map (SVG)Lac des Grandes Baies, Quebec. 46.378° N, 75.11° W
Maximum depth 49.5 m (2012 survey). Scale bar on the map.
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/lac-des-grandes-baies/, compiled October 9, 2026
- Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
- Géobase des bathymétries de lac du Québec (GBLQ), Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), Données Québec.
- États trophiques des lacs (RSVL), Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), Données Québec.
- City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
- Photographs, Wikimedia Commons contributors. Each photo carries its own licence (CC0, public domain, CC BY or CC BY-SA), credited where shown.
Lac des Grandes Baies is 49.5 m deep at its deepest point, deeper than 93% of the 1,506 surveyed lakes in Quebec. It covers 3.57 km² and lies 1.8 km south of Montigny.
- Maximum depth
- 49.5 msurveyed 2012
- deeper than 93% of the 1,506 surveyed lakes in Quebec
- Area
- 3.57 km²
- larger than 88% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 37.2 km
- longer than 94% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 4.1 mSecchi depth, 2024
- clearer than 55% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 264 m
Today on the water
6.2 °C
Observed at Mont-Laurier, as of 2:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m.
| Time | 3 a.m. | 6 a.m. | 9 a.m. | 12 p.m. | 3 p.m. | 6 p.m. | 9 p.m. | 12 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 10 | W 10 | W 10 | NW 20 | NW 20 | NW 15 | NW 10 | var. 5 |
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Temp. °C | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| Precip. % | 60 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tonight: Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low plus 4.
Weather: Mont-Laurier (local forecast), as of 2:02 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:39 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:09 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:24 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:54 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:00 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:43 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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Depth
22% of Lac des Grandes Baies is deeper than 20 m.
How to read it: the lake’s area is sorted from the shore to the deepest point. Where the curve is flat, large areas share one depth (flats and weed beds); where it drops, depth changes quickly (drop-offs).
The government depth survey from 2012 records a maximum depth of 49.5 m, drawn from 66 depth contours.
- Download the depth map (SVG)Printing this page gives the map on one sheet, with scale and sources.
- Official government depth map (PDF)
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
Water
Trophic status from the latest monitoring: oligo-mesotrophic (transition).
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 5 years between 2004 and 2024; the latest annual mean is 4.1 m.
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